The Leonids Meteor Shower and More That Will Light Up Night Skies
October 22 The Orionids meteor shower will peak
November 1 Events we’re watching starting in November
November 18 The Leonids meteor shower will peak
The Geminids, along with the Quadrantids that peaked in January, are thought to originate not from comets, but from asteroid-like space rocks.
While the American Meteor Society lists dozens of meteor showers
that could be seen, below you’ll find the showers that are most likely to be visible in the sky for the remainder of 2017, as well as significant meteor showers that already reached their peak this year.
The meteor shower can brighten the night sky with between 120 and 160 meteors per hour.
Bits and pieces of meteor showers are visible for a certain period of time, but they really peak from dusk to dawn on a given few days.
The best way to see a meteor shower is to get to a location that has a clear view of the entire night sky.
For example, during the Perseid meteor shower you are seeing meteors ejected from when its parent
comet, Comet Swift-Tuttle, visited in 1862 or earlier, not from its most recent pass in 1992.